1001 albums to subject my ears to

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* 1950s
* o Sinatra, Frank – In the Wee Small Hours
* o Presley, Elvis – Elvis Presley (1956)
* o Louvin Brothers – Tragic Songs of Life
* o Prima, Louis – Wildest
* o Domino, Fats – This is Fats
* o Ellington, Duke – At Newport (1956)
* o Sinatra, Frank – Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!
* o Crickets – Chirping…
* o Basie, Count – Atomic Mr Basie
* o Monk, Thelonious – Brilliant Corners
* o Sabú [Martínez] – Palo Congo
* o Davis, Miles – Birth of the Cool
* o Machito – Kenya
* o Little Richard – Here’s…
* o Puente, Tito & His Orchestra – Dance Mania (1958)
* o Holiday, Billie – Lady in Satin
* o Elliott, Jack – Jack Takes the Floor
* o Vaughan, Sarah – At Mister Kelly’s
* o Fitzgerald, Ella – Sings the Gershwin Song Book
* o Charles, Ray – Genius of… (1959)
* o Davis, Miles – Kind of Blue
* o Robbins, Marty – Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
* o Brubeck, Dave – Time Out
* 1960s
* o Baez, Joan – Joan Baez (1960)
* o Presley, Elvis – Elvis is Back!
* o Makeba, Miriam – Miriam Makeba (1960)
* o Everly Brothers – A Date with the…
* o Smith, Jimmy – Back at the Chicken Shack
* o Muddy Waters – At Newport
* o Evans, Bill – Sunday at the Village Vanguard
* o Charles, Ray - Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music
* o Booker T & the MGs – Green Onions
* o Getz, Stan & Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba
* o Price, Ray – Night Life
* o Beatles – With the…
* o Dylan, Bob – Freewheelin’…
* o Spector, Phil & Various Artists – A Christmas Gift for You
* o Cooke, Sam – Live at the Harlem Square
* o Mingus, Charles – Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
* o Brown, James – Live at the Apollo (1963)
* o Getz, Stan & João Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto
* o Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
* o Brel, Jacques – Olympia 64
* o Burke, Solomon – Rock ‘n’ Soul
* o Springfield, Dusty - A Girl Called Dusty
* o Rolling Stones – Rolling Stones (1st Album)
* o Owens, Buck – I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail
* o Lewis, Jerry Lee – Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
* o Sonics – Here Are the…
* o Dylan, Bob – Bringing it All Back Home
* o Redding, Otis – Otis Blue… Sings Soul
* o Beach Boys – Today!
* o Coltrane, John – A Love Supreme
* o King, B.B. – Live at the Regal
* o Beatles – Rubber Soul
* o Jansch, Bert – Bert Jansch (1st Album)
* o Byrds, Mr Tambourine Man
* o Dylan, Bob – Highway 61 Revisited
* o Who – My Generation
* o Beatles – Revolver
* o Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
* o Neil, Fred – Fred Neil (1st Album)
* o Byrds – Fifth Dimension
* o Dylan, Bob – Blonde on Blonde
* o Monks – Black Monk Time
* o Kinks – Face to Face
* o Mamas & the Papas – If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
* o Revere, Paul & the Raiders – Midnight Ride
* o Mothers of Invention – Freak Out!
* o Rolling Stones – Aftermath
* o Simon & Garfunkel – Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
* o 13th Floor Elevators – Psychedelic Sounds of the…
* o John Mayall’s Blues Breakers – With Eric Clapton
* o Yardbirds – Yardbirds [aka Roger the Engineer] (1st Album)
* o Simone, Nina – Wild is the Wind
* o Gilberto, Astrud – Beach Samba
* o Nico – Chelsea Girl
* o Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
* o Country Joe & the Fish – Electric Music for the Mind & Body
* o Buffalo Springfield – Again
* o Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe as Milk
* o Moby Grape – Moby Grape (1st Album)
* o Love – Da Capo
* o Beau Brummels – Triangle
* o Monkees – Headquarters
* o Buckley, Tim – Goodbye & Hello
* o Love – Forever Changes
* o Cream – Disraeli Gears
* o Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gates of Dawn
* o Who – Sell Out
* o Velvet Underground - & Nico
* o Sinatra, Frank - Frank Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
* o Doors – Doors (1st Album)
* o Young Rascals – Groovin’
* o Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow
* o Kinks – Something Else by the…
* o Donovan – Sunshine Superman
* o Haggard, Merle – I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
* o Hendrix, Jimi – Are You Experienced
* o Electric Prunes – I Had too Much to Dream (Last Night)
* o Lynn, Loretta – Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)
* o Sharma, Shivkumar / Brij Bushan Kabra / Hariprasad Chaurasia – Call of the Valley
* o Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat
* o Hendrix, Jimi – Axis: Bold as Love
* o Franklin, Aretha – I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
* o Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
* o Traffic – Traffic (2nd Album)
* o Incredible String Band – Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
* o Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society
* o Shankar, Ravi – Sounds of India (1968)
* o Mutantes, os – Mutantes, os (1st Album)
* o Hendrix, Jimi – Electric Ladyland
* o Cohen, Leonard – Songs of…
* o Cash, Johnny – At Folsom Prison
* o Nyro, Laura – Eli & the Thirteenth Confession
* o Franklin, Aretha – Lady Soul
* o Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum
* o Byrds – Notorious Byrd Brothers
* o Big Brother & the Holding Company – Cheap Thrills
* o United States of America – United States of America
* o Dr John – Gris Gris
* o Iron Butterfly – In a Gadda da Vida
* o Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow
* o Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends
* o Small Faces – Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake
* o Band – Music from Big Pink
* o Beck, Jeff – Truth
* o Veloso, Caetano – Caetano Veloso (1968)
* o Walker, Scott – Scott 2
* o Zombies – Odessey & Oracle
* o Morrison, Van – Astral Weeks
* o Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
* o Beatles – Beatles [aka White Album]
* o Mothers of Invention – We’re Only in it for the Money
* o Young, Neil – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
* o Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica
* o Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country
* o Crosby, Stills & Nash – Crosby, Stills & Nash
* o Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears (2nd Album)
* o Flying Burrito Brothers – Gilded Palace of Sin
* o Cash, Johnny – At San Quentin
* o Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River
* o Beatles – Abbey Road
* o Who – Tommy
* o Davis, Miles – In a Silent Way
* o Bee Gees – Odessa
* o Pentangle – Basket of Light
* o Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed
* o Drake, Nick – Five Leaves Left
* o Springfield, Dusty – Dusty in Memphis
* o Presley, Elvis – From Elvis in Memphis
* o Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground (3rd Album)
* o Quicksilver Messenger Service – Happy Trails
* o Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin (1st Album)
* o Band – Band (2nd Album)
* o Led Zeppelin – II
* o MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
* o Temptations – Cloud Nine
* o Sly & the Family Stone – Stand!
* o Buckley, Tim – Happy Sad
* o Chicago Transit Authority [Chicago] - Chicago Transit Authority (1969)
* o Fairport Convention – Unhalfbricking
* o Youngbloods – Elephant Mountain
* o Hayes, Isaac – Hot Buttered Soul
* o Grateful Dead – Live/Dead
* o Kinks – Arthur: Or the Decline & Fall of the British Empire
* o King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
* o Cohen, Leonard – Songs from a Room
* o Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief
* o Walker, Scott – Scott 4
* o Stooges – Stooges (1st Album)
* o Spence, Alexander ‘Skip’ – Oar
* o Zappa, Frank – Hot Rats
* 1970s
* o Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory
* o Derek & the Dominos – Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
* o Davis, Miles – Bitches Brew
* o Spirit – Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus
* o Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (1st Album)
* o Doors – Morrison Hotel
* o Carpenters – Close to You
* o Still, Stephen – Stephen Stills (1st Album)
* o Lennon, John – Plastic Ono Band
* o Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà vu
* o Black Sabbath – Paranoid
* o Young, Neil – After the Gold Rush
* o Led Zeppelin – III
* o Deep Purple – In Rock
* o Morrison, Van – Moondance
* o Grateful Dead – American Beauty
* o Drake, Nick – Bryter Layter
* o Shankar, Ananda – Ananda Shankar (1970)
* o Who – Live at Leeds(1st Album)
* o Soft Machine – Third
* o Stewart, Rod – Gasoline Alley
* o Harrison, George – All Things Must Pass
* o Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
* o Stevens, Cat – Tea for the Tillerman
* o Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die
* o Stooges – Fun House
* o McCartney, Paul – McCartney (1970)
* o Santana – Abraxas
* o Barrett, Syd – Madcap Laughs
* o Jethro Tull – Aqualung
* o Crosby, David – If Only I Could Remember My Name
* o Sly & the Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On
* o Gaye, Marvin – What’s Going On
* o Yes – Yes Album
* o Bee Gees – Trafalgar
* o Who – Who’s Next
* o King, Carole – Tapestry
* o Hayes, Isaac – Shaft: Music from the Soundtrack
* o Allman Brothers – At Fillmore East
* o Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
* o Lennon, John – Imagine
* o Beach Boys – Surf’s Up
* o Yes – Fragile
* o Doors – LA Woman
* o Can – Tago Mago
* o John, Elton – Madman Across the Water
* o Parton, Dolly – Coat of Many Colors
* o McLean, Don – American Pie
* o Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Tarkus
* o Led Zeppelin – IV [aka Untitled / aka Four Symbols]
* o Gainsbourg, Serge – Histoire de Melody Nelson
* o Stewart, Rod – Every Picture Tells a Story
* o Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Pictures at an Exhibition
* o Cohen, Leonard – Songs of Love & Hate
* o Mitchell, Joni – Blue
* o Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
* o Joplin, Janis – Pearl
* o Kuti, Fela - With Ginger Baker: Live!
* o Faces – A Nod is as Good as a Wink… To a Blind Horse
* o Flamin’ Groovies – Teenage Head
* o Clark, Gene – White Light
* o Prine, John – John Prine (1st Album)
* o Nilsson, Harry – Nilsson Schmilsson
* o T.Rex – Electric Warrior
* o Bowie, David – Hunky Dory
* o Newman, Randy – Sail Away
* o Deep Purple – Machine Head
* o Big Star – # 1 Record
* o Black Sabbath – Vol 4
* o Steely Dan – Can’t Buy a Thrill
* o Young, Neil – Harvest
* o Mayfield, Curtis – Superfly: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
* o Slade – Slayed?
* o Deep Purple – Made in Japan
* o Yes – Close to the Edge
* o Reed, Lou – Transformer
* o Masekela, Hugh – Home is Where the Music Is
* o Nascimento, Milton & Lo Borges – Clube da Esquina (1972)
* o Rundgren, Todd – Something/Anything
* o Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
* o Wonder, Stevie – Talking Book
* o Still, Stephen – Manassas
* o T.Rex – Slider
* o Ackles, David – American Gothic
* o Eagles – Eagles (1st Album)
* o Buckley, Tim – Greetings from LA
* o Drake, Nick – Pink Moon
* o Simon, Paul – Paul Simon (1972)
* o Roxy Music – Roxy Music (1st Album)
* o Alice Cooper – School’s Out
* o Temptations – All Directions
* o Bowie, David – Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
* o War – World is a Ghetto
* o Green, Al – Let’s Stay Together
* o Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St
* o Lynyrd Skynyrd – Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
* o Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo Rock
* o Bowie, David – Aladdin Sane
* o King Crimson – Lark’s Tongues in Aspic
* o Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Catch a Fire
* o Hawkwind – Space Ritual
* o Cale, John – Paris 1919
* o Can – Future Days
* o Reed, Lou – Berlin
* o Genesis – Selling England by the Pound
* o Gaye, Marvin – Let’s Get it On
* o Martyn, John – Solid Air
* o Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
* o Faust – IV
* o Hancock, Herbie – Head Hunters
* o Mott the Hoople – Mott
* o Oldfield, Mike – Tubular Bells
* o Rundgren, Todd – A Wizard, a True Star
* o John, Elton – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
* o Steely Dan – Countdown to Ecstasy
* o Jennings, Waylon – Honky Tonk Heroes
* o Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
* o Wonder, Stevie – Innervisions
* o ZZ Top – Tres Hombres
* o McCartney, Paul & Wings – Band on the Run
* o Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Next
* o Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies
* o Iggy & the Stooges – Raw Power
* o Isley Brothers – 3 + 3
* o New York Dolls – New York Dolls (1st Album)
* o Eno, Brian – Here Come the Warm Jets
* o Bad Company – Bad Company (1st Album)
* o Genesis – Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
* o Otis, Shuggie – Inspiration Information
* o Wonder, Stevie – Fullfillingness’ First Finale
* o Clapton, Eric – 461 Ocean Boulevard
* o Kraftwerk – Autobahn
* o Morrison, Van – It’s Too Late to Stop Now
* o Mitchell, Joni – Court & Spark
* o Queen – II
* o Roxy Music – Country Life
* o Tangerine Dream – Phaedra
* o Sparks – Kimono My House
* o Supertramp – Crime of the Century
* o Thompson, Richard & Linda – I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
* o Scott-Heron, Gil & Brian Jackson – Winter in America
* o Queen – Sheer Heart Attack
* o 10cc – Sheet Music
* o Young, Neil – On the Beach
* o Jones, George – Grand Tour
* o Clark, Gene – No Other
* o Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
* o Newman, Randy – Good Old Boys
* o Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Natty Dread
* o Wyatt, Robert – Rock Bottom
* o Parsons, Gram – Grievous Angel
* o Eno, Brian – Another Green World
* o Dictators – Go Girl Crazy!
* o Neu! – ‘75
* o Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
* o Jarrett, Keith – Köln Concert
* o Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic
* o Bowie, David – Young Americans
* o Burning Spear – Marcus Garvey
* o Springsteen, Bruce – Born to Run
* o Harris, Emmylou – Pieces of the Sky
* o Dion – Born to Be With You
* o Mitchell, Joni – Hissing of Summer Lawns
* o Burman, Rahul Dev – Shalimar (Soundtrack)
* o Young, Neil – Tonight’s the Night
* o Dylan, Bob – Blood on the Tracks
* o Smith, Patti – Horses
* o Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
* o Queen – A Night at the Opera
* o Nelson, Willie – Red Headed Stranger
* o Earth, Wind & Fire – That’s the Way of the World
* o Mayfield, Curtis – There’s No Place Like America Today
* o Petty, Tom & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (1st Album)
* o Modern Lovers – Modern Lovers [Rec 1972, not released until 1976]
* o Bowie, David – Station to Station
* o Mitchell, Joni – Hejira
* o Boston – Boston (1st Album)
* o Eagles – Hotel California
* o ABBA – Arrival
* o Kiss – Destroyer
* o Rush – 2112
* o Ben, Jorge – África Brasil
* o Armatrading, Joan – Joan Armatrading (1st Album)
* o Aerosmith – Rocks
* o Parliament – Mothership Connection
* o Penguin Café Orchestra – Music from the Penguin Café
* o Jarre, Jean Michel – Oxygene
* o Ramones – Ramones (1st Album)
* o Kuti, Fela – Zombie
* o Tosh, Peter – Legalize It
* o Wonder, Stevie – Songs in the Key of Life
* o Frampton, Peter – Frampton Comes Alive
* o Eno, Brian – Before & After Science
* o Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express
* o Joel, Billy – Stranger, the
* o Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Exodus
* o Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue
* o Weather Report – Heavy Weather
* o Muddy Waters – Hard Again
* o Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus
* o Clash – Clash (1st Album)
* o Bowie, David – Low
* o Steely Dan – Aja
* o Wire – Pink Flag
* o Martyn, John – One World
* o Talking Heads – 77
* o Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
* o Bowie, David – ‘Heroes’
* o Wilson, Dennis – Pacific Ocean Blue
* o Suicide – Suicide (1st Album)
* o Iggy Pop – Idiot, the
* o Gabriel, Peter – Peter Gabriel (I)
* o Television – Marquee Moon
* o Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell
* o Costello, Elvis – My Aim is True
* o Iggy Pop – Lust for Life
* o Dury, Ian – New Boots & Panties!!
* o Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the…
* o Pere Ubu – Modern Dance
* o Kraftwerk – Man Machine
* o Blondie – Parallel Lines
* o Regina, Elís – Vento de Maio
* o Pere Ubu – Dub Housing
* o Only Ones – Only Ones (1st Album)
* o Costello, Elvis – This Year’s Model
* o Jam – All Mod Cons
* o Ely, Joe – Honky Tonk Masquerade
* o Adverts – Crossing the Red Sea with the…
* o Big Star – Third (aka Sister Lovers)
* o Residents – Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
* o Public Image Ltd – Public Image
* o Magazine – Real Life
* o Springsteen, Bruce – Darkness on the Edge of Town
* o Funkadelic – One Nation Under a Groove
* o Throbbing Gristle – DOA: Third & Final Report
* o Thin Lizzy – Live & Dangerous
* o Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings & Food
* o Buzzcocks – Another Music in a Different Kitchen
* o Van Halen – Van Halen (1st Album)
* o Colón, Willie & Rubén Blades – Siembra
* o Cars – Cars (1st Album)
* o Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
* o Dire Straits – Dire Straits (1st Album)
* o Saints – Eternally Yours
* o Gaye, Marvin – Here, My Dear
* o Nelson, Willie – Stardust
* o Chic – C’est Chic
* o X-ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents
* o Eno, Brian – Ambient 1: Music for Airports
* o Siouxsie & the Banshees – Scream, the
* o AC/DC – Highway to Hell
* o Sister Sledge – We Are Family
* o Crusaders – Street Life
* o Germs – GI
* o B52s – B52s (1st Album)
* o Czukay, Holger – Movies
* o Police – Reggatta de Blanc
* o Fall – Live at the Witch Trials
* o Talking Heads – Fear of Music
* o Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
* o Chic – Risqué
* o Undertones – Undertones (1st Album)
* o Clash – London Calling
* o Japan – Quiet Life
* o Faithfull, Marianne – Broken English
* o Slits – Cut
* o Costello, Elvis – Armed Forces
* o Young, Neil – Rust Never Sleeps
* o Gang of Four – Entertainment!
* o Cheap Trick – At Budokan
* o Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
* o Pink Floyd – Wall, the
* o Public Image Ltd – Metal Box
* o Jackson, Michael – Off the Wall
* o Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette
* o Numan, Gary – Pleasure Principle
* o Specials – Specials (1st Album)
* 1980s
* o Adam & the Ants – Kings of the Wild Frontier
* o Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
* o AC/DC – Back in Black
* o Cramps – Songs the Lord Taught Us
* o Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
* o Gabriel, Peter – Peter Gabriel (III)
* o Soft Boys – Underwater Moonlight
* o Cure – Seventeen Seconds
* o Echo & the Bunnymen – Crocodiles
* o Motörhead – Ace of Spades
* o Killing Joke – Killing Joke (1st Album)
* o Judas Priest – British Steel
* o Circle Jerks – Group Sex
* o Talking Heads – Remain in Light
* o Joy Division – Closer
* o Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden (1st Album)
* o Undertones – Hypnotised
* o Jam – Sound Affects
* o Waits, Tom – Heartattack & Vine
* o UB40 – Signing Off
* o Teardrop Explodes – Kilimanjaro
* o Specials – More Specials
* o Winwood, Steve – Arc of a Diver
* o Pretenders – Pretenders (1st Album)
* o Einstürzende Neubauten – Kollaps
* o Siouxsie & the Banshees – Juju
* o Heaven 17 – Penthouse & Pavement
* o Go-Gos – Beauty & the Beat
* o Motörhead – No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith
* o Soft Cell – Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
* o Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Architecture & Morality
* o Eno, Brian & David Byrne – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
* o Black Flag – Damaged
* o X – Wild Gift
* o Psychedelic Furs – Talk, Talk, Talk
* o Human League – Dare
* o Gun Club – Fire of Love
* o Bauhaus – Mask
* o Womack, Bobby – Poet
* o Tom Tom Club – Tom Tom Club (1st Album)
* o Rush – Moving Pictures
* o ABBA – Visitors
* o ABC – Lexicon of Love
* o Prince – 1999
* o Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five – Message, the
* o Costello, Elvis – Imperial Bedroom
* o Cure – Pornography
* o Dexys Midnight Runners – Too Rye Ay
* o Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84)
* o Madness – Rise & Fall
* o Fagen, Donald – Nightfly
* o Haircut One Hundred – Pelican West
* o Bush, Kate – Dreaming, the
* o Orange Juice – Rip it Up
* o Jackson, Michael – Thriller
* o Birthday Party – Junkyard
* o Venom – Black Metal
* o Springsteen, Bruce – Nebraska
* o Associates – Sulk
* o Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast
* o Duran Duran – Rio
* o Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes (1st Album)
* o McLaren, Malcolm – Duck Rock
* o Def Leppard – Pyromania
* o REM – Murmur
* o The The – Soul Mining
* o Waits, Tom – Swordfishtrombones
* o Blue Nile – A Walk Across the Rooftops
* o Hanoi Rocks – Back to Mystery City
* o Lauper, Cyndi – She’s So Unusual
* o Simon, Paul – Hearts & Bones
* o Echo & the Bunnymen – Porcupine
* o ZZ Top – Eliminator
* o Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
* o U2 – War
* o Police – Synchronicity
* o Meat Puppets – II
* o Culture Club – Colour by Numbers
* o Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Welcome to the Pleasuredome
* o Run DMC – Run DMC (1984)
* o Sade – Diamond Life
* o Cocteau Twins – Treasure
* o Minor Threat – Out of Step
* o Van Halen – 1984
* o Prince – Purple Rain
* o Replacements – Let it Be
* o Style Council – Café Bleu
* o Turner, Tina – Private Dancer
* o Echo & the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
* o Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
* o Cole, Lloyd & the Commotions – Rattlesnakes
* o N’Dour, Youssou – Immigrés
* o Springsteen, Bruce – Born in the USA
* o Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace
* o Ibrahim, Abdullah – Water from an Ancient Well
* o Aha – Hunting High & Low
* o Tears for Fears – Songs from the Big Chair
* o Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms
* o Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen (aka Two Wheels Good)
* o Mekons – Fear & Whiskey
* o Big Black – Atomizer
* o Vega, Suzanne – Suzanne Vega (1st Album)
* o Pogues – Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
* o Bush, Kate – Hounds of Love
* o Smiths – Meat is Murder
* o Waits, Tom – Rain Dogs
* o Jesus & Mary Chain – Psychocandy
* o New Order – Low Life
* o Simply Red – Picture Book
* o Dexys Midnight Runners – Don’t Stand Me Down
* o Scritti Politti – Cupid & Psyche 85
* o Costello, Elvis – Blood & Chocolate
* o Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force – Planet Rock: The Album
* o Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill
* o Metallica – Master of Puppets
* o The The – Infected
* o Griffith, Nanci – Last of the True Believers
* o Bragg, Billy – Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
* o Talk Talk – Colour of Spring
* o Megadeth – Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?
* o Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet
* o Sonic Youth – Evol
* o Slayer – Reign in Blood
* o Throwing Muses – Throwing Muses (1986)
* o Simon, Paul – Graceland
* o Run DMC – Raising Hell
* o XTC – Skylarking
* o Earle, Steve – Guitar Town
* o Bad Brains – I Against I
* o Baker, Anita – Rapture
* o Smiths – Queen is Dead
* o Gabriel, Peter – So
* o Anthrax – Among the Living
* o Dinosaur Jr – You’re Living All Over Me
* o Parton, Dolly with Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Trio
* o Def Leppard – Hysteria
* o REM – Document
* o Prince – Sign ‘O’ the Times
* o Cult – Electric
* o Depeche Mode – Music for the Masses
* o Sisters of Mercy – Floodland
* o Michael, George – Faith
* o Hüsker Dü – Warehouse: Songs & Stories
* o Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician
* o Piazzolla, Astor & Gary Burton – New Tango
* o Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come
* o Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction
* o Jesus & Mary Chain – Darklands
* o Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Shaka Zulu
* o Laibach – Opus Dei
* o Napalm Death – Scum
* o Sonic Youth – Sister
* o Triffids – Calenture
* o Jackson, Michael – Bad
* o Pet Shop Boys – Actually
* o U2 – Joshua Tree
* o D’Arby, Terence Trent – Introducing the Hardline According to…
* o Pogues – If I Should Fall from Grace with God
* o Cohen, Leonard – I’m Your Man
* o Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues
* o Fishbone – Truth & Soul
* o Everything But the Girl – Idlewild
* o Living Colour - Vivid
* o Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff
* o REM – Green
* o Happy Mondays – Bummed
* o Go Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane
* o Cowboy Junkies – Trinity Session
* o Chapman, Tracy – Tracy Chapman (1st Album)
* o My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything
* o Pixies – Surfer Rosa
* o Metallica – And Justice for All
* o Dinosaur Jr – Bug
* o Krause, Dagmar – Tank Battles
* o lang, k.d. – Shadowland
* o American Music Club – California
* o Morrissey – Viva Hate
* o Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
* o Sugarcubes – Life’s Too Good
* o Yoakam, Dwight – Beuenas Noches from a Lonely Roomn
* o Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking
* o Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
* o Faith No More – Real Thing
* o Kravitz, Lenny – Let Love Rule
* o Hooker, John Lee – Healer, the
* o New Order – Technique
* o Madonna – Like a Prayer
* o Queen Latifah – All Hail the Queen
* o Spacemen 3 – Playing with Fire
* o fIREHOSE – fROMOHIO
* o Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
* o Young Gods – Eau Rouge, l’
* o Zorn, John – Spy vs Spy: Music of Ornette Coleman
* o Stone Roses – Stone Roses (1st Album)
* o Cherry, Neneh – Raw Like Sushi
* o Maal, Baaba & Mansour Seck – Djam Leelii
* o Bush, Kate – Sensual World
* o Cure – Disintegration
* o 808 State – 808:90
* o Coldcut – What’s That Noise?
* o Adamson, Barry – Moss Side Story
* o Aerosmith – Pump
* o Pixies – Doolittle
* o Raitt, Bonnie – Nick of Time
* o Fugazi – Repeater
* o Soul II Soul – Club Classics: Vol One
* o De La Soul – 3 Feet High & Rising
* o Jackson, Janet – Rhythm Nation 1814
* o Jungle Brothers – Done by the Forces of Nature
* o NWA – Straight Outta Compton
* 1990s
* o Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
* o Shamen – En-Tact
* o Deee Lite – World Clique
* o La’s – La’s
* o Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker
* o Depeche Mode – Violator
* o Pixies – Bossanova
* o Megadeth – Rust in Peace
* o Digital Underground – Sex Packets
* o Pet Shop Boys – Behaviour
* o Happy Mondays – Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches
* o Michael, George – Listen Without Prejudice: Vol 1
* o Young, Neil – Ragged Glory
* o Ice Cube – AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted
* o Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual
* o LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out
* o Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
* o O’Connor, Sinéad – I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
* o Tribe Called Quest, a – People’s Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm
* o Sonic Youth – Goo
* o Ride – Nowhere
* o My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
* o Nirvana – Nevermind
* o Crowded House – Woodface
* o Cypress Hill – Cypress Hill (1st Album)
* o Cope, Julian – Peggy Suicide
* o Gang Starr – Step in the Arena
* o MC Solaar - Qui Sème le Vent Récolte le Tempo
* o Jah Wobble – Rising Above Bedlam
* o Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
* o Ice T – OG: Original Gangster
* o Mudhoney – Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
* o Public Enemy – Apocalypse 91… Enemy Strikes Back
* o Tribe Called Quest, a – Low End Theory
* o Pearl Jam – Ten
* o Saint Etienne – Foxbase Alpha
* o Sepultura – Arise
* o Slint – Spiderland
* o U2 – Achtung Baby
* o KLF – White Room
* o Massive Attack – Blue Lines
* o Primal Scream – Screamadelica
* o Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque
* o Metallica – Metallica [aka Black Album]
* o Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted
* o Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
* o Arrested Development – 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of…
* o Olomidé, Koffi – Haut de Gamme: Koweït, Rive Gauche
* o Morrissey – Your Arsenal
* o Maal, Baaba – Lam Toro
* o Lemonheads – It’s a Shame About Ray
* o Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1st Album)
* o Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy – Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury
* o lang, k.d. – Ingénue
* o Dr Dre – Chronic, the
* o REM – Automatic for the People
* o Pharcyde – Bizarre Ride II the…
* o Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies
* o Sugar – Copper Blue
* o Waits, Tom – Bone Machine
* o Sonic Youth – Dirty
* o Stereo MCs – Connected
* o Ministry – Psalm 69 (Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs)
* o Amos, Tori – Little Earthquakes
* o Ice Cube – Predator
* o Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power
* o Alice in Chains – Dirt
* o Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Henry’s Dream, by…
* o Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali – Devotional Songs
* o Harvey, P.J. – Dry
* o Suede – Suede (1st Album)
* o Weller, Paul – Wild Wood
* o Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
* o Auteurs – New Wave
* o Phair, Liz – Exile in Guyville
* o Afghan Whigs – Gentlemen
* o Mann, Aimee – Whatever
* o Grant Lee Buffalo – Fuzzy
* o Nirvana – In Utero
* o Jamiroquai – Emergency on Planet Earth
* o Pet Shop Boys – Very
* o Harvey, P.J. – Rid of Me
* o Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish
* o Crow, Sheryl – Tuesday Night Music Club
* o Fall – Infotainment Scan
* o Wu Tang Clan – Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
* o Björk – Debut
* o Orbital – Orbital [aka Brown Album]
* o Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle
* o Sebadoh – Bubble & Scrape
* o Boo Radleys – Giant Steps
* o Orbit, William – Strange Cargo: III
* o Method Man – Tical
* o Black, Frank – Teenager of the Year
* o Girls Against Boys – Venus Luxure No 1 Baby
* o Jeru the Damaja – Sun Rises in the East
* o Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
* o Portishead – Dummy
* o Sabres of Paradise – Haunted Dancehall
* o Nas – Illmatic
* o Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
* o Costello, Elvis – Brutal Youth
* o Morrissey – Vauxhall & I
* o TLC – CrazySexyCool
* o Oasis – Definitely Maybe
* o Soundgarden – Superunknown
* o Offspring – Smash
* o Drive Like Jehu – Yank Crime
* o Blur – Parklife
* o G Love & Special Sauce - G Love & Special Sauce (1994)
* o Touré, Ali Farka – Talking Timbuktu
* o Hole – Live Through This
* o Massive Attack – Protection
* o Manic Street Preachers – Holy Bible
* o Suede – Dog Man Star
* o Notorious BIG – Ready to Die
* o Buckley, Jeff – Grace
* o Orbital – Snivilisation
* o Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York
* o Nine Inch Nails – Downward Spiral
* o Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation
* o Green Day – Dookie
* o Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters (1st Album)
* o Garbage – Garbage (1st Album)
* o Nightmares on Wax – Smokers Delight
* o Tricky – Maxinquaye
* o Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
* o Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
* o Rocket from the Crypt – Scream, Dracula, Scream
* o Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust
* o 2Pac – Me Against the World
* o Elastica – Elastica (1st Album)
* o Supergrass – I Should Coco
* o Radiohead – Bends, the
* o Guided by Voices – Alien Lanes
* o Kuti, Femi – Femi Kuti (1995)
* o Verve – A Northern Soul
* o Genius GZA – Liquid Swords
* o Pulp – Different Class
* o Leftfield – Leftism
* o D’Angelo – Brown Sugar
* o Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
* o Goldie – Timeless
* o Morissette, Alanis – Jagged Little Pill
* o Screaming Trees – Dust
* o Super Furry Animals – Fuzzy Logic
* o Fatboy Slim – Better Living Through Chemistry
* o Dr Octagon – Dr Octagonecologyst
* o Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
* o Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die
* o Beck – Odelay
* o Belle & Sebastian – Tigermilk
* o DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
* o Eels – Beautiful Freak
* o Divine Comedy – Casanova
* o Apple, Fiona – Tidal
* o Wilco – Being There
* o Sepultura – Roots
* o Adamson, Barry – Oedipus Schmoedipus
* o Fun Lovin’ Criminals – Come Find Yourself
* o Maxwell – Urban Hang Suite
* o Charlatans – Tellin’ Stories
* o Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
* o Everything But the Girl – Walking Wounded
* o Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Murder Ballads
* o Bukem, LTJ – Logical Progression
* o Underworld – Second Toughest in the Infants
* o Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Now I Got Worry
* o Cardigans – First Band on the Moon
* o Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar
* o Fugees – Score, the
* o Ash – 1977
* o Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
* o Blur – Blur (1997)
* o Radiohead – OK Computer
* o Quaye, Finley – Maverick a Strike
* o Elliott, Missy Misdemeanor – Supa Dupa Fly
* o Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
* o Primal Scream – Vanishing Point
* o Wyatt, Robert – Shleep
* o Holmes, David – Let’s Get Killed
* o Sleater Kinney – Dig Me Out
* o Prodigy – Fat of the Land
* o Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club (1997)
* o Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Boatman’s Call
* o Divine Comedy – A Short Album About Love
* o Cornershop – When I was Born for the 7th Time
* o Daft Punk – Homework
* o Williams, Robbie – Life Thru a Lens
* o Carey, Mariah – Butterfly
* o Supergrass – In it for the Money
* o Dylan, Bob – Time Out of Mind
* o Size, Roni & Reprazent – New Forms
* o Smith, Elliott – Either/Or
* o Verve – Urban Hymns
* o Spiritualized – Ladies & Gentlemen, We are Floating in Space
* o Dandy Warhols – Dandy Warhols (1997)
* o Dylan, Bob – Bootleg Series Vol 4: Live 1966 [rec: 1966 at Free Trade Hall, Manchester]
* o Chao, Manu – Clandestino
* o Bragg, Billy & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue
* o Turbonegro – Apocalypse Dudes
* o Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
* o Gray, David – White Ladder
* o Williams, Lucinda – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
* o Pulp – This is Hardcore
* o Madonna – Ray of Light
* o Hill, Lauryn – Miseducation of…
* o Hole – Celebrity Skin
* o Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
* o System of a Down - System of a Down (1st Album)
* o Queen of the Stone Age - Queen of the Stone Age (1st Album)
* o Air – Moon Safari
* o Singh, Talvin – OK
* o Korn – Follow the Leader
* o Khalèd, (Cheb) – Kenza
* o Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause
* o Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children
* o Suba - São Paulo Confessions
* o XTC – Apple Venus: Volume 1
* o Skunk Anansie – Post Orgasmic Chill
* o Incubus – Make Yourself
* o Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
* o Travis – Man Who
* o Slipknot – Slipknot (1st Album)
* o Orton, Beth – Central Reservation
* o Sawhney, Nitin – Beyond Skin
* o Death in Vegas – Contino Sessions
* o Moby – Play
* o Flaming Lips – Soft Bulletin
* o Rhymes Digitales, les – Darkdancer
* o Tigre, le – Tigre, le (1999)
* o Eminem – Slim Shady LP
* o Spears, Britney – Baby One More Time
* o Metallica – S&M
* o Bonnie Prince Billy – I See a Darkness
* o Shack – HMS Fable
* o Basement Jaxx – Remedy
* o Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
* o Sigur Rós – Ágætis Byrjun
* 2000s
* o Doves – Lost Souls
* o Air – Virgin Suicides: Original Motion Picture Score
* o Adams, Ryan – Heartbreaker
* o Gilberto, Bebel – Tanto Tempo
* o Cole, MJ – Sincere
* o Harris, Emmylou – Red Dirt Girl
* o Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish & the Hot Dog Flavored Water
* o Radiohead – Kid A
* o U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind
* o Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
* o Smith, Elliott – Figure 8
* o Badly Drawn Boy – Hour of Bewilderbeast
* o Harvey, P.J. – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
* o Badu, Erykah – Mama’s Gun
* o Coldplay – Parachutes
* o Common – Like Water for Chocolate
* o Ladd, Mike – Welcome to the Afterfuture
* o Red Snapper – Our Aim is to Satisfy
* o Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP
* o Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
* o Giant Sand – Chore of Enchantment
* o Lambchop – Nixon
* o Lemper, Ute – Punishing Kiss
* o Madonna – Music
* o Avalanches – Since I Left You
* o OutKast – Stankonia
* o Radiohead – Amnesiac
* o Silver Jews – Bright Flight
* o Björk – Vespertine
* o Gorillaz – Gorillaz (1st Album)
* o Adams, Ryan – Gold
* o Destiny’s Child – Survivor
* o Strokes – Is This It
* o Welch, Gillian – Time (The Revelator)
* o Gotan Project – Revancha del Tango, la
* o White Stripes – White Blood Cells
* o Beta Band – Hot Shots II
* o Jay Z – Blueprint
* o Röyksopp – Melody AM
* o Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera
* o Super Furry Animals – Rings Around the World
* o Jurassic 5 – Power in Numbers
* o Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
* o Ms Dynamite – A Little Deeper
* o Bees – Sunshine Hit Me
* o Jones, Norah – Come Away with Me
* o Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
* o Coral – Coral (2002)
* o Cash, Johnny – American IV: Man Comes Around
* o Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
* o Doves – Last Broadcast
* o Elliott, Missy – Under Construction
* o Springsteen, Bruce – Rising, the
* o Aguilera, Christina – Stripped
* o Roots – Phrenology
* o Beck – Sea Change
* o Timberlake, Justin – Justified
* o Vines – Highly Evolved
* o Hives – Your New Favourite Band
* o Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
* o Winehouse, Amy – Frank
* o Calexico – Feast of Wire
* o Darkness – Permission to Land
* o White Stripes – Elephant
* o Dizzee Rascal – Boy in da Corner
* o Kings of Leon – Youth & Young Manhood
* o Thrills – So Much for the City
* o Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
* o OutKast – Speakerboxxx/Love Below
* o 50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin’
* o Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
* o Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow
* o Wainwright, Rufus – Want One
* o Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters (1st Album)
* o Morrissey – You Are the Quarry
* o Björk – Medúlla
* o Mylo – Destroy Rock & Roll
* o Wilson, Brian – SMiLE
* o Icarus Line – Penance Soirée
* o Arcade Fire – Funeral
* o Banhart, Devendra – Rejoicing in the Hands
* o Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
* o Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand (1st Album)
* o N*E*R*D – Fly or Die
* o Beta Band – Heroes to Zeros
* o Ozamatli – Street Signs
* o Libertines – Libertines (1st Album)
* o West, kanYe – College Dropout
* o Green, Cee-Lo – Is the Soul Machine
* o TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
* o Liars – They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
* o Streets – A Grand Don’t Come for Free
* o Wainwright, Rufus – Want Two
* o Zutons – Who Killed the Zutons?
* o Killers – Hot Fuss
* o Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
* o MIA (UK) – Arular
* o Beck – Guero
* o White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan

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...according to someone who's apparently qualified.

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